In St. Petersburg, the storm reportedly snapped a 2½-foot-wide palm tree at its stump.

Hurricane #Irma snapped this palm tree (2.5-feet in diameter) off at the stump along Beach Drive in downtown #StPete, #Florida | #FLwx pic.twitter.com/s4aFGtTDjW

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Phil Buck (@Phil_Buck)
Sept. 11, 2017

A drone video in Naples, where the storm arrived after making landfall at Marco Island, showed houses that were mostly still standing but that had sustained significant damage and were surrounded by floodwaters.